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- Related Stories Obituaries 2026 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries Obituaries 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries Siegel began his career in Washington, D. C., where he co-founded a locations services company with Stewart Neumann before moving into production management and line producing.
- He worked in those capacities, sometimes uncredited, on more than 60 films ranging from Kevin Costner’s Best Picture Oscar winner Dances with Wolves and Bull Durham to Alfonso Cuarón Best Picture nominee Gravity to The Hangover trilogy, The Lego Movie, Air Force One, The Pursuit of Happyness and many others.
- Along with last year’s horror hit Final Destination Bloodlines, Siegel was an executive producer on such films as War Dogs, The Babysitter, Life of a Party and Crazy, Stupid, Love.
- He also served as production manager or unit production manager on pics including Borat, Air Force One, Tin Cup, Collateral Damage, Message in a Bottle, Superhero Movie, The Bucket List, Flipped and Holes.
- Along with Costner and Cuarón — with whom he shared a 2014 DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film as unit production manager on Gravity — Siegel worked with such notable filmmakers as the late Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall, along with Todd Phillips and David Lester.
